Here's the deal. You've all probably heard my Copaman-style rants and postings about the airplane noise complaints at Scottsdale Airport, AZ.
Well, the situation is hitting home....smack dab in my backyard, literally.
For those of you familiar with the greater PHX metro area, I recently purchased a home in the far southeast valley, located about 15 miles south of Williams Gateway Airport (former Williams AFB) just inside Pinal County. The home is in a community called Johnson Ranch, and can be classified as fairly upscale. Most of JR is complete with the exception of the southern side, which is one of the final phases to be completed. My home was recently completed, and closed on in January. The dilemma is this: For any of you that have a PHX sectional you can follow along. About 8 miles south of the subdivision, a Military Training Route known as VR-269 runs east to west. I've personally flown VR-269 many times (almost as many as VR-239 north of the PHX area). The dimensions of the route at the point it crosses south of the subdivision is 4 miles north/ 3 miles south of centerline, down to 500 AGL. A couple of the my new neighbors in subdivision were recently overheard to have made comments/complaints about "the noisy military jets that fly low to the south, what do they think they're doing there?" etc.
Now, since I live in that subdivision, I want to nip this crap in the bud forthwith. Since I'm also one of the culprits they'd be referring to, I want to figure out how best to do this? None of them really know who I am or what I do (they've obviously never met me), so how to do this? Should I run for the homeowners association? Sort of "have the criminal on the committee?" Or when I return, should I schedule that VR-route as often as I can in my remaining A-10 flights just to piss them off, then come back home and enjoy the complaints? Maybe a "yeah, I saw the plane earlier today....that was me. How did it look? BTW.. you're sleeping safely tonight, so piss off" How to educate these nitwits?
Well, the situation is hitting home....smack dab in my backyard, literally.
For those of you familiar with the greater PHX metro area, I recently purchased a home in the far southeast valley, located about 15 miles south of Williams Gateway Airport (former Williams AFB) just inside Pinal County. The home is in a community called Johnson Ranch, and can be classified as fairly upscale. Most of JR is complete with the exception of the southern side, which is one of the final phases to be completed. My home was recently completed, and closed on in January. The dilemma is this: For any of you that have a PHX sectional you can follow along. About 8 miles south of the subdivision, a Military Training Route known as VR-269 runs east to west. I've personally flown VR-269 many times (almost as many as VR-239 north of the PHX area). The dimensions of the route at the point it crosses south of the subdivision is 4 miles north/ 3 miles south of centerline, down to 500 AGL. A couple of the my new neighbors in subdivision were recently overheard to have made comments/complaints about "the noisy military jets that fly low to the south, what do they think they're doing there?" etc.
Now, since I live in that subdivision, I want to nip this crap in the bud forthwith. Since I'm also one of the culprits they'd be referring to, I want to figure out how best to do this? None of them really know who I am or what I do (they've obviously never met me), so how to do this? Should I run for the homeowners association? Sort of "have the criminal on the committee?" Or when I return, should I schedule that VR-route as often as I can in my remaining A-10 flights just to piss them off, then come back home and enjoy the complaints? Maybe a "yeah, I saw the plane earlier today....that was me. How did it look? BTW.. you're sleeping safely tonight, so piss off" How to educate these nitwits?